The Clown Punk- Simon Armitage

begins with a stereotype then attacks it and shows you how it is wrong

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Checking out me History- John Agard

Checking out me History

he doesnt know who he really is because he hasnt been taught about black history

taking a second glance at his culture

he is challenging what he has been told

dialect used

all of these things are repeated throughout the poem to emphasise how much his culture means to him

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Horse Whisperer- Andrew Forster

Horse Whisperer

sensual diction

elegaic tone

narrative

dramatic monologue

only one voice

the title is mysterious like the poem

loves horses

"helpless children to safety"- this is a pied piper echo because he wants to help but by doing that, he is hurting others

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Medusa- Carol Ann Duffy

Medusa

power of 3 used regularly- shows she is powerful

dramatic monologue

free verse

jealousy makes her ugly

bitter language

shocking imagery

sarcasm

perhaps she is jealous of the people she has killed because she cannot die and death is her only way of freedom

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Singh Song- Daljit Nagra

Singh Song

love is more important to him than work

the poem is in free verse to show how free his life is

"my bride" repeated 3 times-rule of 3-emphasizes his love for his wife

dialect

unorthodox

I think that he loves his wife so much because she is to different to the rest of the typical Indians, she stands out and that is what he likes about her.

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Brendon Gallacher- Jackie Kay

BrendonGallacher

elegy

simple language like a nursery rhyme

memories are still there even if he is not

"my Brendon Gallacher" is repeated to try and get him back

not a very dramatic death

mother destroyed her escape from life

half rhyme to show that he is only half real

the speaker made Brendon's life seem worse than hers so she doesn't feel so bad

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Give- Simon Armitage

Give

free verse

could be writing about "the clown punk"

sympathetic tones

ambiguity

linked with the bible

desperate

sarcasm

also linked with Christmas because the 'three wise men' brought 'Frankinsense and Myrrh' on Christmas day

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Les Grands Seigneurs- Dorothy Molloy

Les Grands Seigneurs

colloquial language

opposite of a 'fairy-tale-ending'

naive

prejudice

at the beginning, the speaker is in control but by the time we get to the end, he is in control because of her naive ways

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Ozymandias- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

warns you against power

be careful what you wish for

a waste of time&space

Percy Bysshe Shelley did not like monarchs, especially in England

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My Last Duchess- Robert Browning

MyLastDuchess

colloquial language

formal language

dramatic monologue

no stanzas to show long marriage

caesura- she's dead

he is filled with jealousy because he thought that his wife was cheating on him with the artist who painted the portrait of her

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The River God- Stevie Smith

TheRiverGod

evil irony

dramatic monologue

dark tones

misconduct of power

the positioning of the length of the lines looks like a river flowing when you turn the poem sideways, apart from when Stevie writes "she bathed me..." "so I brought her down here" the first quotation is long and represents the cliff but the second one represents the bottom

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The Hunchback in the Park- Dylan Thomas

The Hunchback in the Park

lack of punctuation creates tension

sympathetic

could be the 'Clown Punk'

Dylan Thomas could be writing about himself because when you write, you have a 'hunched back'

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The Ruined Maid- Thomas Hardy

TheRuinedMaid

the speaker is speaking on behalf of other prostitutes

'before&after' version of herself

ironic imagery- glamorous&positive but her job is the complete opposite

Thomas Hardy uses another character as a source of imagery

"she said" is repeated many times to show she doesn't deserve a name

the speaker calls herself 'ruined' because she is disgraced with herself but the other person never calls her that. It shows us what she thinks of herself

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Casehistory: Alison (head injury)- U.A. Fanthorpe

Casehistory: Alison (head injury)

short stanzas to show how little she remembers

vivid at the beginning "she looks at her photograph" then fades, like her memory

elegaic tone

dramatic monologue

the line pattern is like a heartbeat on a life-support machine when you turn it sideways

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On A Portrait Of A Deaf Man- John Betjemen

OnA PortraitOfA DeafMan

elegy

ballad

"I only see decay" like their faith has decayed

there is a lot of sensual diction in it which is ironic because the man is deaf so he cannot hear anything